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In 2019, months before New Delhi revoked the region’s autonomy, a car bomb attack by militants in southern Pulwama district killed at least 40 paramilitary soldiers and wounded dozens more, bringing India and Pakistan close to war.
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Aijaz Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
The meeting comes on the same day a car bomb killed a senior Russian military officer in the town of Balashikha just east of Moscow, Russian investigators said, in an attack that Russian war bloggers blamed on Ukraine.
—Anastasia Teterevleva and Mark Trevelyan, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2025
Celtic Women Held Sway in ‘Matrilocal’ Societies But what led him to build a makeshift car bomb and to take his own life is the focus of the investigation by local and federal agencies.
—Dave Philipps, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
That passport had gone through Munich in 2014, where a car bomb killed a member of Chechen intelligence, and to Paris in 2015, where a Palestinian human-rights lawyer was killed.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2024
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Aijaz Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
The meeting comes on the same day a car bomb killed a senior Russian military officer in the town of Balashikha just east of Moscow, Russian investigators said, in an attack that Russian war bloggers blamed on Ukraine.
—Anastasia Teterevleva and Mark Trevelyan, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2025
Celtic Women Held Sway in ‘Matrilocal’ Societies But what led him to build a makeshift car bomb and to take his own life is the focus of the investigation by local and federal agencies.
—Dave Philipps, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
That passport had gone through Munich in 2014, where a car bomb killed a member of Chechen intelligence, and to Paris in 2015, where a Palestinian human-rights lawyer was killed.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2024
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“Car bomb.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/car%20bomb. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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